Extension Programs: NEWBio Webinars

About our Webinars

Join us on the second Tuesday of each month for our "Northeast Bioenergy Webinar Series". These online, hour-long presentations are free to the public, and feature fascinating and important topics related to bioenergy in the northeast.

Upcoming Webinar

Description: Shrub willow and corn are two crops as different as they can be: one is annual and adapted to warm summers, the other is perennial and adapted to cold winter and mild summers. In the NE and Pennsylvania, both species grow well, but do so with different strategies. Evidence from "eddy covariance" measurements of carbon dioxide and water vapor flux above the canopy of these two crops shows that the differences in growth and water use of these two crops are substantial. These differences have implications for the expected yield and water use of these crops, and their influence on ecosystem services of agriculture such carbon gain, hydrology, and water quality regulation. These implications are discussed for the northeastern US as shrub willow and other energy crops find their place in the economic and agricultural landscape of the region.

October 13, 2015: Biomass Energy and Pennsylvania's Clean Power Plan. Presentation by Geoff Bristow, Northwest Regional Energy Manager for Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection. Bristow reviewed the CPP with a focus on EPA's guidance on the process and considerations for states proposing biomass strategies, potential pathways for use of biomass, and ways in which biomass advocates can become engaged in Pennsylvania's (and other states') CPP development.

September 30, 2011: Forest Biomass and Bioenergy: Opportunities and Constraints in the Northeastern United States - Charles Canham, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Thomas Buchholz, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont

September 12-13-14, 2017
Mid-Atlantic Biomass Energy Conference and Expo: Building the Bioeconomy
NEWBio will partner with MABEx for this comprehensive biomass conference.
The Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center
State College, PA
More details and registration information forthcoming!